Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan’s love for family is what drew him to his latest project \u2013 starring in the new Paramount+ comedy series “Crutch.”<\/p>\n
Morgan plays Frank Crutchfield, a widowed father of two adult kids who move back into the family home in New York City’s Harlem. It’s a spinoff of the hit CBS show “The Neighborhood.”<\/p>\n
“Prepping my whole life, man. I’ve got kids. My real wife died, Sabina. She passed away eight years ago. I \u2026 knew this role. I know this guy,” Morgan said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” that aired on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Morgan’s ex-wife Sabina, who was his high school sweetheart, died of cancer in 2016.<\/p>\n
“I was with her in the hospital the day she closed her eyes and I said, ‘I love you. I miss you and please forgive me for any hurt I’ve ever caused you and I will see you again.'”<\/p>\n
Purpose in his work<\/p>\n
For Morgan, he says it’s important to not just be funny, but also send a message in his work.<\/p>\n
“If it doesn’t have a heart, I don’t want to do it,” he said. “I need to be motivated. I got to say something. You got to tell life how I see it.”<\/p>\n
Humor has helped the comedian through some of life’s most demanding moments, all while he built one of comedy’s most impressive resumes. Morgan found comfort in commanding an audience, standing out in everything he put his fingers on, including “Saturday Night Live.”<\/p>\n
“When I first got there, I felt socially pushed away,” he said. “Because it is like the whitest show in the world and I didn’t want no one to portray me in a way that wasn’t true. It was like I had the whole Black community on my back.”<\/p>\n
Morgan said then he had a conversation with the show’s creator and producer Lorne Michaels, which changed everything.<\/p>\n
“Lorne let me know, ‘Tracy, we didn’t hire you because you’re Black. We hired you because you’re funny,’ and that changed it all. That’s when I let go and I let God,” he said.<\/p>\n
Car crash impact on his life<\/p>\n